Schedule Management 20Q Test

This is a randomized 20-question test on Schedule Management KA of PMBoK

Question 1 of 20

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. He has currently completed estimating resources for this project. What could he possibly do next:

1. Plan Human Resource Management

2. Baseline the schedule

3. Get budget approval

4. Estimate costs

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Question 2 of 20

One of the software effort estimation methodologies uses the following formula to arrive at effort:

E=ai(KLoC)(bi)(EAF)

What type of estimation methodology is this?

1. Bottom up estimation

2. PERT estimation

3. Analogous estimation

4. Parametric estimation

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Question 3 of 20

The number of days by which a task can be delayed without delaying any of its successor tasks is called

1. Total Float

2. Float

3. Free Float

4. Slack

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Question 4 of 20

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the length of the critical path is –

1. 13 days

2. 21 days

3. 19 days

4. 18 days

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Question 5 of 20

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to defining activities?

1. It is fine if no activities are defined initially

2. All activities must be defined while developing a schedule

3. All activities are defined as part of WBS in the scope baseline

4. Some activities can be defined initially and activities for mile stones occurring later on can be defined when the project is closer to the milestone

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Question 6 of 20

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to the relationship between scope and activity definition

1. Scope base line is an input to defining activities

2. Defining activities is a pre-requisite to base lining scope

3. WBS is part of scope base line and activities are part of WBS base line.

4. Activity definition and scope base line have no relationship at all

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Question 7 of 20

Which of the statements is true about fast tracking?

1. In a fast tracking method, the float of each task is leveraged to fast track the project.

2. In a fast tracking method, employees are motivated to work harder and faster so that the project completion is fast tracked.

3. In a fast tracking method, the discretionary dependencies are re-examined to exploit inherent parallelism among activities

4. Additional resources are allocated to tasks in the critical path so that the duration of the tasks and hence the whole project is fast tracked

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Question 8 of 20

1. It is a network diagram depicting a critical path

2. It is an incomplete network diagram

3. It is a network diagram depicting a critical chain.

4. What is the closest description of the network diagram above?

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Question 9 of 20

The outcome of sequence activities is

1. Project activity diagram

2. Activity list

3. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

4. Project network diagram

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Question 10 of 20

10.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the free float for task D is

1. 6 days

2. 2 days

3. 4 days

4. 8 days

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Question 11 of 20

11.

A project manager has just defined the activity list for a project. What is the possible process that he should execute next?

1. Estimate cost

2. Estimate resources

3. Sequence activities

4. Estimate durations

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Question 12 of 20

12.

In a circus, there is a stunt involving swinging. There are many swingers whose legs are anchored to the swing and their hands are free for stunts. There are free swingers who perform many stunts and swing between these Anchored swingers. One unit of activity of an anchored swinger starts by holding the free swinger, continues with performing the stunts and then finishes with the anchored swinger leaving the contact of free swinger. There is a dependency in this scenario that one anchored swinger can leave the contact of the free swinger only after another anchored swinger holds the free swinger. This dependency between the activities of anchored swingers is of type

1. FF

2. FS

3. SS

4. SF

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Question 13 of 20

13.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the Early Start and Early Finish for task C are –

1. 11, 16

2. 6, 11

3. 9, 14

4. 1,7

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Question 14 of 20

14.

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. While estimating the resources, he is identifying the resources for activities at the leaf nodes of the activity breakdown structure and then aggregating the resources at summary activities and then at the project level. What estimation method is Barry likely to be using:

1. Analogous estimation

2. Bottom up estimation

3. Parametric estimation

4. Top down estimation

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Question 15 of 20

15.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the critical path is –

1. A-B-C-H

2. A-E-F-H

3. A-E-F-G-H

4. A-D-G-H

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Question 16 of 20

16.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the float for task D is

1. 8 days

2. 2 days

3. 4 days

4. 6 days

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Question 17 of 20

17.

Tom is leading a project which is in the planning phase. And based on statistical samplings, he has determined that for a specific case, the optimistic duration estimate is 4 days, most likely estimate is 8 days and the pessimistic estimate is 12 days. What would be the 3-point estimate according to Beta distribution?

1. 8 days

2. 6.7 days

3. 6.83 days

4. 7 days

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Question 18 of 20

18.

lease refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the Late Start and Late Finish for task B are –

1. 6, 11

2. 3, 8

3. 11,16

4. 5, 10

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Question 19 of 20

19.

Tom is leading a project which is in the planning phase. And based on statistical samplings, he has determined that for a specific case, the optimistic duration estimate is 4 days, most likely estimate is 7 days and the pessimistic estimate is 9 days. What would be the 3-point estimate according to PERT distribution?

1. 6.7 days

2. 6.83 days

3. 7 days

4. 7.5 days

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Question 20 of 20

20.

The outcome of defining activities is

1. Activity list

2. Project activity diagram

3. Task breakdown structure

4. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Question 20 of 20